The Sir Robert Bond Papers: When Johnny Cab breaks #nlpoli
Last week’s Environics poll caused more than a few people in the province to have a few sleepless nights trying to find a way to prove it was a crock or nothing to sweat. Those were the Tories. The NDP...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Environics poll shows Tories in full flower, Wildrose...
Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith with some of her party’s social conservative supporters, who came home to roost a few days before the April 23 provincial election … and stayed! Alberta politicians and...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Newest Alberta poll shows overwhelming support for Premier...
Premier Alison Redford with her winning PC machine. Below: Opposition Leader Danielle Smith with her less successful Wildrose machine. Below Ms. Smith: Alberta Scan publisher Paul McLoughlin and...
View ArticleThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The sum of all fears #nlpoli
Kathy Dunderdale says that it is gratifying to have the support of the majority of the people of the province, as recent polls show, according to the Premier. In another corner, former natural...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: The Great Wall of Saskatchewan: popular, yes, but a peacemaker?
Brad Wall, Christy Clark, Alison Redford and Greg Selinger discuss the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline while visiting China. Actual Canadian premiers may not appear to their Chinese hosts exactly as...
View ArticleThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Support but lacking sufficient information – the...
The more questions you ask, the more information you get. The more information you have, the more accurate a picture you can draw of anything. In this case, it’s public opinion. On Monday, the...
View ArticleThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Secret of Their Distress #nlpoli
Not content with just one round of fascinating public opinion information, NTV decided to unleash a second evening of news about how the public feels about Muskrat Falls. The responses are based on the...
View ArticleNorthern Insight: "All bets are off"… or not
It's been a while since I complained about CBC pundit Stephen Smart but his 5pm news report today was egregious. He suggested the current Angus Reid poll indicates an important shift that gives new...
View ArticleThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Your Future is in Their Hands: impacted poller...
David Brazil, member for Conception Bay East-Bell Island, on how he and his political colleagues approach the task of governing: Mr. Speaker, we do not govern by polls. We want to know what the people...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Pollster’s take on Alberta leaders’ popularity sets stage for...
Shades of things to come? Alison Redford, Canada’s second most popular premier, gets ready to break a board with Opposition Leader Danielle Smith’s face on it. Situations Alberta politicians find...
View ArticleThe Scott Ross: Idle No More Might Be Popular No More: Polls
A few online polls suggest Idle No More is not supported by a majority of Canadians. Though there appears to be no major polling done as of yet, three recent online polls give some idea about the...
View ArticleNorthern Insight: BC political alignments remain stable
When the watercarriers report that massive government advertising is making a material difference to BC Liberal fortunes, be inclined to skepticism. Last November, Stephen Smart, CBC’s Liberal...
View ArticleThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Some evidence #nlpoli
A few years ago, some people believed that comments left on news stories and in online discussion groups could influence public opinion. As it turns out, no one took any advice about anything from some...
View ArticleThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Party Spending on Polls #nlpoli
Over the past decade, the provincial Conservatives have consistently outspent the other parties in the province on polling and similar research in both election and off years, according to figures...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Two polls show how, and maybe why, Alberta’s Tory coalition is...
Weakened but still standing: The mighty Tory edifice. Don’t panic. This is a metaphor! Below: Alberta Premier Alison Redford. It’s interesting to juxtapose the results of two new polls on related but...
View ArticleThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Tories below 30 #nlpoli
By now you’d be living in a cave if you hadn’t heard any news of the latest Corporate Research Associates poll. The NDP are slightly ahead of the Tories and both are about 10 percentage points ahead of...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Advice for Tom Mulcair and Justin Trudeau: Hammer Stephen...
The neoliberal Harper economy at work: a Toronto street scene, last week. Below: Thomas Mulcair, Justin Trudeau, Stephen Harper and Margaret Thatcher. Here’s some free advice for a couple of would-be...
View ArticleNorthern Insight: Bloggers 1 / BC Pro-media 0
Excellent piece in the Globe & Mail by Eric Grenier (@308dotcom) on why he expects no irregular polling results in the BC election, as seemed to occur in Alberta last April. Why the B.C. NDP...
View ArticlePolitics, Re-Spun: A brief reflection on BC election polling
Once the disappointment over the BC election isn’t so painful, there’s something that needs to be talked about regarding polling. This is a quick, stream-of-consciousness post, and I plan on writing...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory: lessons from B.C....
Just to set the mood, it’s Left-Leaning B.C. Premiers Day on Alberta Diary. Here’s your blogger with some former NDP premiers from that province – Dave Barrett above, Mike Harcourt and Ujjal Dosanjh...
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